Recreational steelhead season begins December 1st (this Friday)! We are looking forward to another year of steelhead fishing on the central coast. MBSTP would like to encourage those of you fishing this season to participate in the CDFW Angler Survey program. Angler...

The May 11th MBSTP Chinook Salmon Enhancement release from the Santa Cruz Harbor was a complete success. The NEW protocol released 120,000 Salmon smolts into the Monterey Bay outside the mouth of Santa Cruz Harbor. These fish will grow to consumable harvest size in...

The Salmon Enhancement Program has started up at Moss Landing. This site has some benefits over the Santa Cruz Harbor. The Moss Landing Harbor governance fully supports our intention to acclimate 240,000 Chinook smolts annually. The rich upwelling waters of the...

The Santa Cruz Harbor has entered discussions with a “stakeholder group” in a series of meetings to seek solutions to the impacts caused by the Chinook run that can occur in the Harbor as a result of the MBSTP Salmon Enhancement Program. MBSTP is seeking to work with...

You may be aware that the Santa Cruz Harbor plans to severely curtail or close salmon fishing within the harbor. Their current proposal would allow fishing from the Harbor entrance jetties only, with “in-harbor” fishing constrained to specific...

NOAA Fisheries comes through with major assistance for needed improvements at the hatchery! They got grant funding to pay for an aquaculture engineer to design a system to provide for water recirculation, sediment removal and filtration, and U/V sterilization to kill...